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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add virtio-input driver.
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:05:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <550B01CC.9030602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150319164311-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>



On 19/03/2015 17:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 03:46:44PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Latest.  As far I know there never ever have been incompatible changes
>> to the interface, and given this is userspace/kernel abi I don't expect
>> that to happen in the future.
> 
> More events are added though, are they not? And distros backport rundom
> subsets.
> So I worry: what happens e.g. if you migrate between hosts which expose
> slightly different subsets of events?
> Might e.g. a button get stuck because button-press event was
> sent but button-release wasn't?

I think this is the same as SCSI.  You can migrate between hosts which
expose slightly different command sets.

Paolo

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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Add virtio-input driver.
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:05:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <550B01CC.9030602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150319164311-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com>



On 19/03/2015 17:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 03:46:44PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Latest.  As far I know there never ever have been incompatible changes
>> to the interface, and given this is userspace/kernel abi I don't expect
>> that to happen in the future.
> 
> More events are added though, are they not? And distros backport rundom
> subsets.
> So I worry: what happens e.g. if you migrate between hosts which expose
> slightly different subsets of events?
> Might e.g. a button get stuck because button-press event was
> sent but button-release wasn't?

I think this is the same as SCSI.  You can migrate between hosts which
expose slightly different command sets.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-19 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1426756391-26585-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>
2015-03-19  9:13 ` [PATCH 1/1] Add virtio-input driver Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found] ` <1426756391-26585-1-git-send-email-kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19  9:13   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-19  9:13     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-19 12:27     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]     ` <1426756391-26585-2-git-send-email-kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19 12:27       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 12:27         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-20 10:28         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20 10:28           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-21 22:22           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-21 22:22             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23  7:53             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23  7:53               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 11:52               ` [virtio-dev] " Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-23 13:44               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 13:44               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 13:51                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 13:51                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 14:27                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 14:27                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]                     ` <1427120855.27137.55.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-23 14:54                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 14:54                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 15:05                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 15:05                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 16:17                           ` Cornelia Huck
     [not found]                           ` <1427123129.27137.62.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-23 16:17                             ` Cornelia Huck
2015-03-23 16:17                               ` Cornelia Huck
2015-03-23 18:20                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 18:20                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 14:54                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 12:29     ` David Herrmann
2015-03-19 12:29     ` David Herrmann
     [not found]       ` <CANq1E4TDj4pq3J_BVc=Yuzo5dVR=QcNexVUqaqwjg7Qi5_xX4Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19 16:27         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-19 16:27           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-19 17:16           ` David Herrmann
2015-03-19 17:16           ` David Herrmann
2015-03-20  9:54           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20  9:54           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20  9:48         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20  9:48           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20  9:55           ` David Herrmann
     [not found]           ` <1426844885.32097.36.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-20  9:55             ` David Herrmann
2015-03-20  9:55               ` David Herrmann
2015-03-20 10:36               ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]               ` <CANq1E4QLPSK6NVeEx6yihYPdF-XPpXx4rKv0deHwX+s2RzFHCg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-20 10:36                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20 10:36                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]                   ` <1426847799.32097.66.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-20 10:43                     ` David Herrmann
2015-03-20 10:43                       ` David Herrmann
2015-03-20 10:43                   ` David Herrmann
2015-03-19 16:27       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-20  9:48       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-19 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 14:46   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-19 14:46     ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-19 16:33     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 16:33       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 17:05       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-03-19 17:05         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-19 16:46     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 16:46     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 13:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19  9:13 Gerd Hoffmann

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